Germany to maintain border controls with Czechia

Germany will maintain border controls with Czechia and its other neighbor states, which it reinstated in mid-October, the DPA news agency reported. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the prime ministers of the federal states agreed on their extension on Monday night. During the meeting, which lasted for more than six hours, the top officials also agreed on a new distribution of costs for asylum seekers or speeding up asylum procedures, DPA said. The checks are conducted on a random basis. German police patrols will also check vehicles on the motorway between Prague and Dresden.